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Home Safe
Elizabeth Berg

Home Safe

A Novel

Ballantine (Oct 27, 2009)
9780345487551
| Trade Paperback
224 pages | 131 x 210 mm | English
Dewey 813
LC Classification PS3552.E6996 .H66 2009
LC Control No. 2009464874

Genre

  • Domestic Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction

Subject

  • Domestic Fiction
  • Mothers And Daughters
  • Mothers And Daughters/ Fiction
  • Parent And Adult Child/ Fiction
  • Widows/ Fiction

Plot

In this stunning novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, meddling in her life and offering unsolicited advice. Then Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and seemingly loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. When a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery, both mother and daughter reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.